Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> writes: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> It seems that nothing is happening on the snow leopard front. This is >> something that has to be solved ASAP (1.6.4.2?) > > definitely. Thanks for coming back to this. > > 1.6.4.2 would mean that we would have to patch the 1.6.4.1 sources. Branch is > too far off (and would be 1.6.5).
This is what I had in mind. We can maybe make a binary specially for 10.6 (since it will be slower for 10.5 users), unless someone tell me how to decide whether to disable fork() at runtime. > How "risky" is this? I'd take it that for 1.6.4.2, the delay would be > bearable, if we aim to fix the problem properly in 1.6.5. The patch that disables fork() seems obvious enough to me, but an extra pair of eyes (and testers) would help. For the speedup part, this can indeed wait for 1.6.5. Windows people have been living with the delay forever and they are not dead yet. Moreover, different platform may need different optimizations. A mac profile would show us where time is spent. I do not think we can have a windows profile, unfortunately. JMarc
